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Roget's Thesaurus

Greed (excessive desire)

Nouns
  • covetousness, ravenousness etc. adj.
  • venality, avidity, cupidity
  • acquisitiveness (acquisition) Acquisition
  • desire etc. Desire. [greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion. selfishness etc. Selfishness
  • craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
Verbs
  • covet, crave (desire) Desire
  • grasp
  • exact, extort.
Adjectives
  • greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping
  • rapacious
  • lickerish. greedy as a hog
  • overeager
  • voracious
  • ravenous, ravenous as a wolf
  • openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid
  • insatiable, insatiate
  • unquenchable, quenchless
  • omnivorous.